Service Designer Contracts in the West Midlands

Service Designer
England > West Midlands

The median Service Designer daily rate in the West Midlands is £613, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 110 182
Rank change year-on-year +8 +72 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Service Designer 10 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.53% 0.26% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.28% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £579 £388 £524
25th Percentile £584 £464 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £519 £650
Median % change year-on-year +18.07% -20.19% +22.64%
75th Percentile £634 £539 £929
90th Percentile £636 £542 £1,352
England median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +6.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,757 1,818 3,370
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.82% 94.25% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 1,246 2,360
10th Percentile £213 £220 £210
25th Percentile £376 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% +10.00%
75th Percentile £612 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 66 57
10th Percentile £12.58 £15.38 £12.41
25th Percentile £14.03 £17.31 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.05 £22.20 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +25.25% +14.32%
75th Percentile £33.23 £33.64 £24.50
90th Percentile £45.63 £67.50 £42.55
England median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%

Service Designer
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Service Designer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Service Designer in the West Midlands

Service Designer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Designer in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Service Designer in the West Midlands

Service Designer
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Designer within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Warwickshire - 9 £613 -
Birmingham +2 1 - -
Service Designer
England

Service Designer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Service Designer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Service Designer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Service Design
2 5 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 4 (40.00%) Customer Experience
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Identification
3 4 (40.00%) WeChat
3 4 (40.00%) Aerospace
3 4 (40.00%) Automotive
3 4 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
4 2 (20.00%) ITSM
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Service Management
4 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (20.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (10.00%) Journey Map
5 1 (10.00%) Incident Response
5 1 (10.00%) Design Sprint
5 1 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 1 (10.00%) User Journey Map
5 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (10.00%) User Research

Service Designer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) WeChat
2 2 (20.00%) Nutanix
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
1 5 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (40.00%) Aerospace
2 4 (40.00%) Automotive
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Service Design
2 5 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 4 (40.00%) Customer Experience
3 4 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Identification
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) ITSM
4 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (20.00%) Portfolio Management
4 2 (20.00%) Service Management
5 1 (10.00%) Co-Creation
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (10.00%) Design Sprint
5 1 (10.00%) Prototyping
5 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (10.00%) Threat Detection
5 1 (10.00%) User Journey Map
5 1 (10.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) ArcSight
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Splunk